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low or unsatisfactory; on a side of general aptitude test (GAT), the average mark was lower than those in
the past; and on a side of aptitude on literacy and computation of population aging from 6 years old, it
addressed that 91.1 percent of all children and youth were groups of children and youth aging 14-24 years old
owning both literacy and computation skills. There were limits and challenges of educational management
with centralization in general, while there were irregularities with educational qualities and accessibilities
for the local administration. The centralized education was criticized for non-responding to needs and
contexts of cultural and ethnic diversities.

2.6 Right to Health: Thailand is now approaching to the aging society with more vulnerability for its
healthcare management systems, comprising the national healthcare scheme; the social security scheme;
and the government officers’ welfare scheme. The Government thus tries to create more healthcare
management systems with the investment and contribution from both private sectors and individual
insured. Meanwhile, the Government also makes efforts to issue various measures leveraging
qualities of public health with universal coverage and services strengthened to ensure that all residing in
Thailand accessible to healthcare schemes, particularly the adoption of Cabinet Resolution, dated 20 th
April 2015, for restoring basic rights to healthcare for ethnic minorities and their descendants migrating
to Thailand and persons facing difficulties on personal statuses and rights. NHRCT noted that there were
differentiation and disparity among three healthcare schemes, while people living in remote area and groups with
disadvantaged still could not access to any of healthcare systems, e.g. persons with disabilities, migrant
workers and their dependent, etc.

2.7 Right to Work: The Government created various measures for promoting and protecting right to
work, e.g. to ensure the minimum wage with work safety and accessibility to healthcare schemes, including
to solve problems and to eliminate human trafficking threats with increase of efficiency for labor inspecting
measures for the aims to protect all workers under laws and social assurances. Notwithstanding, there are
groups of workers found inaccessible to labor protection, as: domestic helpers and overseas workers, etc.
In the matter of minimum wage, there is a request with acceleration that recently increased but such wage
is still lower than those in some ASEAN countries. In the matter of freedom of assembly and setting-up of
trade unions, the Government clearly stands for ratifying International Labor Organization (ILO) Conventions
No.87 and 98 that encouraging freedom of assembly with labor protection and exercise of right to
gathering with collective bargaining.

3. GROUPS WITH MAGINALIZATION AND VULNERABILITYเมือง

In general, groups with marginalization and vulnerability are facing human rights
infringements either from anyone’s actions taken with multi-discrimination and
their intersectional attributions. And although the Government has made significant

efforts to issue and regulate laws and policies with actions for progressive realization
and protection of rights of groups with marginalization and vulnerability, but the
constraints and limits with interpretation of laws and policies into practices are
still found particularly with irregularities and incoherence of laws and policies that

caused impacts to communities and people on the ground. NHRCT has principal
findings with observations for the rights promotion and protection of five groups
as follows:

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